Distributed Control System for Large Scale Geographically Distributed Data Centers and Methods for Use Therewith

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller communicates directly via the management network with the first subset of the plurality of agents.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the controller communicates indirectly via the management network with the second subset of the plurality of agents.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the controller communicates indirectly via the management network with the second subset of the plurality of agents via ones of the first subset of the plurality of agents.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of agents is configured to communicate directly with another agent of the plurality of agents to perform a coordinated distributed processing.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the coordinated distributed processing includes a map-reduce function to produce aggregated data and wherein the at least one of the plurality of agents communicates the aggregated data to the controller.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of agents is configured to perform a plurality of functions autonomously from the controller, wherein the plurality of functions include two or more of: initiating a connection to an upstream agent of the plurality of agents in the hierarchical topology, pulling state information from the upstream agent of the plurality of agents, attempting a reconnection with another agent of the plurality of agents, or auto-healing degraded portions of the management network under jurisdiction of the at least one of the plurality of agents.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of agents is configured to perform a plurality of functions autonomously from the controller, wherein the plurality of functions include two or more of: initiating a connection to an upstream agent of the plurality of agents in the hierarchical topology, receiving tasks to be performed from the upstream agent of the plurality of agents, or receiving a notification that a state of the management network has changed.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller determines the allocated parent agent for the new agent based on at least one of: a geographical proximity to the new agent the allocated parent agent or based on a latency triangulation between the new agent and the allocated parent agent.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the controller communicates directly via the management network with the first subset of the plurality of agents.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the controller communicates indirectly via the management network with the second subset of the plurality of agents.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the controller communicates indirectly via the management network with the second subset of the plurality of agents via ones of the first subset of the plurality of agents.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein at least one of the plurality of agents is configured to communicate directly with another agent of the plurality of agents to perform a coordinated distributed processing.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the coordinated distributed processing includes a map-reduce function to produce aggregated data and wherein the at least one of the plurality of agents communicates the aggregated data to the controller.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein at least one of the plurality of agents is configured to perform a plurality of functions autonomously from the controller, wherein the plurality of functions include two or more of: initiating a connection to an upstream agent of the plurality of agents in the hierarchical topology, pulling state information from the upstream agent of the plurality of agents, attempting a reconnection with another agent of the plurality of agents, or auto-healing degraded portions of the management network under jurisdiction of the at least one of the plurality of agents.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein at least one of the plurality of agents is configured to perform a plurality of functions autonomously from the controller, wherein the plurality of functions include two or more of: initiating a connection to an upstream agent of the plurality of agents in the hierarchical topology, receiving tasks to be performed from the upstream agent of the plurality of agents, or receiving a notification that a state of the management network has changed.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the controller determines the allocated parent agent for the new agent based on at least one of: a geographical proximity to the new agent the allocated parent agent or based on a latency triangulation between the new agent and the allocated parent agent.